38th PSOE Federal Congress
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956 delegates in the 38th PSOE Federal Congress 479 delegate votes needed to win |
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The 2012 PSOE federal congress—officially the 38th Federal Congress—was held between 3 and 5 February 2012 to elect a new party leadership in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). The congress was called after the PSOE suffered its worst defeat since the Spanish transition to democracy. Previous Secretary General José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero had announced in April the same year he would not stand for election to a third term as Prime Minister of Spain, announcing his intention to step down as party leader after a successor had been elected.
The result was a close race between the two main candidates to the General Secretariat: Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, the party's candidate for the 2011 general elections and former First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, and Carme Chacón Piqueras, former Minister of Defense. The ballot saw Rubalcaba win by a 51% of the vote (487 votes) to the 49% won by Carme Chacón (465 votes), with 2 blank votes and 1 invalid vote.
On 8 January, Luis Ángel Hierro Recio—former party deputy in the Congress of Deputies between 2004 and 2007—tried to gather the required federal committee endorsements to be able to run in the party congress. However, he was unable to collect the required endorsements of at least 10% of federal committee members and was eliminated as a result.
Candidates seeking to run were required to collect the endorsements of at least 10% of federal committee members and of between 20% and 30% of congress delegates.
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